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One Night Stand

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One Night Stand (1997)

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Reviews Counted:27

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Rotten:19

Average Rating:5.1/10

Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: ONE NIGHT STAND is director Mike Figgis's morality play about casual sex in the age of AIDS. Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) travels to see his old friend Charlie (Robert Downey, Jr.) in New York and... ONE NIGHT STAND is director Mike Figgis's morality play about casual sex in the age of AIDS. Max Carlyle (Wesley Snipes) travels to see his old friend Charlie (Robert Downey, Jr.) in New York and winds up in an act of infidelity with a beautiful stranger named Karen (Nastassja Kinski). Max's one night stand is not a source of fear or guilt, but rather a crisis that leads him to question the life he's built and is so easily convinced to betray. That life, as a family man and director of shallow commercials in Los Angeles, is best embodied in his demanding wife Mimi, a Hollywood socialite who only connects with her husband on apparently superficial levels. Mimi is played by Ming-Na Wen, who steals the show in her supporting role (except when Robert Downey, Jr. is on the screen, stealing the show even more in his supporting role as Max's friend, who is dying of AIDS). Making subtle use of his multiracial cast, writer-director Mike Figgis has crafted a dramatic tale about love, sex, and betrayal. [More]

Starring: Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski, Kyle MacLachlan, Ming-Na Wen

Starring: Wesley Snipes, Nastassja Kinski, Kyle MacLachlan, Ming-Na Wen, Robert Downey, Marcus Paulk, Natalie Trott, John Calley, Glenn Plummer, Amanda Donohoe, Zoe Nathenson, Thomas Haden Church, Vincent Ward, John Ratzenberger, Thomas Kopache, Annabelle Gurwitch, Susan Barnes, Malissa Jonas, Margaret Makinen, Mike Figgis, Edita Brychta, Hans Tester, Richard Paradise, Joe Drago, Johanna Torell, Julian Sands, Donovan Leitch, Ione Skye, Xander Berkeley

Director: Mike Figgis

Director: Mike Figgis
Producer: Mike Figgis, Ben Myron, Annie Stewart
Screenwriter: Mike Figgis
Composer: Mike Figgis

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Clint Morris

A memorable motion picture with four fiery performances

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Fred Topel

Boring adultery drama, but nice Ming-na nude scene.

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